02905oam 22005654 450 991015463750332120161109020109.09780822362920082236292910.1515/9780822373476(OCoLC)1139362463962329665(MiAaPQ)EBC4753360(DE-B1597)554695(DE-B1597)9780822373476(OCoLC)965709104(CKB)3710000000964591(Perlego)1466717(EXLCZ)99371000000096459120161109d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFinite media environmental implications of digital technologies /Sean CubittDurham :Duke University Press,2017.1 online resource (255 pages)A cultural politics book"A cultural politics book."Online version: Cubitt, Sean, 1953- author. Finite media Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 9780822373476 (DLC) 2016028817 Includes bibliographical references and index.Energy -- Matter -- Eco-political aesthetics -- Ecological communication as politics.While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is through an eco-political media aesthetics, in which people use media to shift their relationship to the environment and where public goods and spaces are available to all. Cubitt demonstrates this through case studies ranging from the 1906 film The Story of the Kelly Gang to an image of Saturn taken during NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission, suggesting that affective responses to images may generate a populist environmental politics that demands better ways of living and being. Only by reorienting our use of media, Cubitt contends, can we overcome the failures of political elites and the ravages of capital.Cultural politics book.Digital mediaEnvironmental aspectsDigital mediaPolitical aspectsDigital mediaSocial aspectsDigital mediaEnvironmental aspects.Digital mediaPolitical aspects.Digital mediaSocial aspects.302.23/1Cubitt Sean1953-1139729NDDNDDNDDBOOK9910154637503321Finite media2890255UNINA